Unique
Thanks Stvvv1611! We need to see "the mystery". Otherwise, we are "searching what or what manner..."
Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
The KEY that opened my understanding is when I recognized three things:
(1) Paul is a UNIQUE apostle - the apostle of the Gentiles, separate from the 12
(2) With a UNIQUE gospel - the gospel of the grace of God
(3) And a UNIQUE ministry - for the first time, to GENTILES (since salvation had always been of the Jews, not until NOW)
(4) To a UNIQUE group of people - ONE BODY
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